Cooling and ventilating buildings



(No Model.)

L. L. BATTLE. COOLING AND VENTILATING BUILDINGS.

Patented Nov. 20 1888-.

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'W'ITJvEssEssgcxfi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUOIUS LUOULLUS BATTLE, OF RIVERSIDE, ARKANSAS.

COOLING AND VENTlL'ATlNG BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,137, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed June 6, 1888. Serial No. 276,207. (No model.)

- Riverside, in the county of Woodruff and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oooling and Ventilating Buildings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to means for cooling and ventilating dwellings and other buildings; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter explained.

The object of the invention is to provide a cheap and simple means of conveying cold air to the several stories of abuilding, thereby reducing the temperature of the apartments during warm weather.

In the drawings, Figure]. is a vertical section of the building with my improvement shown in section. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical transverse section of the inlet-ventilator and tank. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the shaft on the line aas, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail vertical section of the tank and troughs.

Referring by letters of reference to the accompanying drawings, A designates the walls of a building; B, a shaft or well, preferably located at one end of the building and extending from the lower floor up through the roof A, as shown, said shaft being divided into three vertical parts, B B B the middle or inlet ventilator, B being about three times the size of the outlet-ventilators,1B"B.

a a" a designate the floors of the building.

I) b b designate openings leading from the rooms near the floors to the inlet-ventilator B and provided with the vertically-sliding doors 0. The opening I) is larger than the openings 1) b for the admission of a person to place ice in the bucket, presently explained.

a c 0 show openings near theceiling of each room opening into the outlet -ventilators BB.

O designates a tank mounted on upright-s c, a suitable distance above-the mouth of the shaft or well, and provided with drains 0, opening into troughs I), secured to the bottom of said tank. These troughs are V-shaped in cross-section, and'are provided with openings or drains cl.

E E E are strips of woolen material secured leading from the bottom of the inlet-ventilator, connects with the pipe I, and acts as a drain for any water thatmay collect in the bottom of the inlet-ventilator. A water-supply pipe, K, leads up on the inside of the ventilator and discharges into the tank 0 near the top thereof.

In order to facilitate the supply ofwefrigerating material to the receptacles a pulley, P, is secured to the underside of the top T of the tank B, and a rope, R, runs over said pulley and carries a bucket or platform for elevating the refrigerating material from the bottom of the well to the several receptacles, as required. It will be seen that the air coming in at the top or opening 0 is reduced in temperature before it passes out into the rooms below, and will force the warm air out through the ventilators c 0' 0 as indicated by the arrows on the drawings.

Havingdescribed myiuvention,whatlclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the walls, floors, and roof of a house, of a shaft having an inlet and two outlet ventilators and having a tank secured to uprights over said ventilators, the troughs D, the woolen strips E, the supply pipe, the auxiliary troughs placed in the inletventilator below the level of the floors, the drain-pipes, and the sliding doors to regulate the admission of cold air to the apartments, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUOIUS LUGULLUS BATTLE.

\Vitnesses:

S. M. J oNEs, R. G. EWING. 

